Map of UFOs in the UK

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Map of UFO encounters

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Explanations

This is a flex dashboard analysing the ufo sightings in the UK in the XX Century. The dashboard is divided into 3 parts:

  • Map of ufo sightings along with number of encounters and their lengths
  • Analysis of most common places and shapes of ufo sightings
  • Analysis of descriptions of the ufo sightings

The dataset is taken from https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-06-25

Map interpretation

The map on the left shows the places, 3 most common shapes shapes and lengths of encounters in the UK.

  • The most common place of UFO encounters is London with over 200 encounters
  • There were far fewer encounters in the north of the UK than south

Places, shapes and time

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Places

city_area circle||light||other mean_length
birmingham 45107 26315.19
bristol 1951 19.42
coventry 2062 4.69
edinburgh 1552 3.85
glasgow 2776 10.05
leeds 1751 18.48
liverpool 2243 7.66
london 1284434 9.62
manchester 4587 10.34
nottingham 2454 6.52

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2009

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Encounters across the years

Places in time

Descriptions

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Wordcloud

100 most common words in the descriptions of the encounters:

Most common word appearing in the descriptions is 44. Other common words are related to collors, lights and shapes of the UFOs. The emotions expressed in the descriptions were overally positive with high levels of trust and anticipation.

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Emotions